Fair enough, I can understand the reason behind Tommy's arrest,
(shifting gears slightly)
what disturbed me more, was the recent case of Mark Meechan, the Scottish Youtuber who made a crass joke in teaching his girlfriends pug to be a Nazi (on the basis that it was the most vile thing he could think of). It lead to his arrest, a lengthy trial at the end of which he narrowly avoided prison was fined 800 pounds. (and he was labeled far-right by the media) -yes it was offensive, but it was still clearly a joke and it was only possible to prosecute him by willfully ignoring that context.
Dragging people before the court for making an offensive joke is fairly new development in the UK, and a pretty Orwellian one.
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